starling is not a bird

The sound of younger brothers playing with puppies came from outside, Yinhu was not good at being serious with Yinzhen, she lowered her head and kept silent after tidying up her clothes, Yinzhen saw that he was just focusing on playing with the belt and didn't speak, guess it was just now He was so abrupt, Yinzhen has always had little affection for his brothers, and he has a heavy heart, so he only treats each other with courtesy and does not get close to him on weekdays.

Only this eighth younger brother has seen him being affectionate, and he has accepted a lot of affection from him these days, and Yinzhen has also developed a heart of affection.This time when I came out of the palace, not only the Queen Mother was rewarded for wound medicine, but also Concubine Tong had prepared a lot, but it was not as honest as the eighth brother sent me.It's not that he doesn't miss his heart.

"Fourth brother, I'm a man. I don't want to be coquettish, but what's the point of getting hurt? I don't want to squeeze a carriage with children." Yinhu knew that this brother had always been soft and hard, so he relied on himself She's acting like a spoiled child at her age.

"How old are you older than them? Are you a man? Hehe" Yinzhen looked at his younger brother's small body, and put him and Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi together in his heart. I killed two deer, brother, look, there are many opportunities along the way, so why don’t you allow me to shoot a big tiger?”

Yinzhen was holding the teacup, and he put down the cup when he heard this. Yinzhen himself has poor eyesight, and he is not good at bowing horses. Huang Ama draws the bow and shoots the arrow to compete, but this does not mean that he has not worked hard. Among the few brothers, he really does not think that Xiao Ba is any better than himself.Can you still talk big now?Unconsciously secretly funny.

Yinhu regretted it after finishing speaking, why did he forget that he is better at martial arts than riding and shooting?For a moment, he had no choice but to look at the table indiscriminately, thinking about changing the subject.But I saw neatly written in block letters on the manuscript on the table: "Li Ling did not fail the Han, and Liang Gong also turned against the Zhou", "The righteousness is responsible, and the order returns quickly to dissuade", "Fortunately, I will see the sun in the future. Baier's festival; Er's festival is obvious, then I will tell my achievements", "wax book sends envoys to fail the promise first, favors the life, and is trustworthy later", "If you have a secret, it is difficult to explain the negative slander".

Yinhu chewed the words and sentences, always felt familiar, and after thinking about it again, he remembered that this was Chen Menglei's "Chen Xingzhai and Li Anxi Breaking Friendship Letter".

Chen Menglei and Huang Ama's confidant Li Guangdi were friends from the same hometown. In the 12th year of Kangxi, when the two returned to their hometown to visit relatives, it coincided with the San Francisco Rebellion and fell into Geng Jingzhong's rebellion.Chen Menglei and Li Guangdi co-authored the letter to explain the situation to the court and expressed their loyalty. Unexpectedly, Li Guangdi deleted Chen Menglei's name and asked for credit with wax pills alone.

In the 15th year of Kangxi's reign, Huang Ama personally conquered and quelled the San Francisco rebellion, and Geng Jingzhong surrendered.Li Guangdi rose to the top with his achievements in wax pills, but Chen Menglei was falsely accused by Geng Party Xu Hongbi, who misunderstood Chen Fang as a "thief and false order", and was arrested and imprisoned for the crime of "attaching treason".

Although the two made meritorious deeds together, Li Guangdi aspired to meritorious deeds alone. After Chen Menglei was accused of rebellion and imprisoned, he repeatedly asked Li Guangdi to testify against him, but Li Guangdi remained silent.Chen Menglei naturally hated Li Guangdi. In July of that year, he wrote "An Essay on the City God of the Capital", calling him a person who "bullyed the emperor and betrayed his friends".

After Chen Menglei was imprisoned, his mother, wife, and children died of illness one after another. In grief and indignation, he wrote the "Letter of Breaking Friendship with Li Guangdi": "A husband who forgets his virtue is not rewarded, and does not save him when he sees danger. The delusion of the past, the protection of the past, the avoidance of sharing the merits of working together, throwing stones down to silence the mouth, a gentleman can die but can't fall, who can stand this?...Xiang Shi and Nian brothers are not the same age, same location, and same official, Disagreement in opinions, disbelief in temperament, may not be the end of the breakup! Looking back on the past ten years, it seems like a dream, life is unfortunate, would you rather have something right?".

He no longer had any hope of "helping" Li Guangdi, the pious "brother" who sold out his friends and sought glory. Li Guangdi broke his oath and kept his promise, which caused all kinds of life misfortunes caused by his unjust relegation, such as "the old mother can't go to the funeral when she sees her back; the old father can't go to the family because she relies on her husband" and other life misfortunes. The whole letter denounces Li Guangdi's " The hypocrisy of "swearing to the sky, being thick and profound, enough to be believed" and the despicable personality of "repaying virtue with grievances".

The whole article is upright and powerful, righteous and strict, painful and generous, full of tears, full of literary talent, and a thousand miles away, it is truly a wonderful essay through the ages!It is no wonder that this letter of renunciation was introduced to Beijing from Shenyang, a place of bitter cold.Finally, a decree of grace was issued to exile him in Fengtian Shangyang Castle.

It's a pity that Huang Ama has always got along with Li Guangdi's monarch and ministers, and refused to thoroughly investigate the case. Chen Menglei has no chance to stand up, but Yinhu doesn't like Chen Menglei too much. He still remembers that Huang Ama will recall him in a few years Jingcheng was the third brother's teacher, but he helped the third brother do a lot of things. He relied on his literary name to win the hearts of the third brother, and finally urged the third brother to get the eldest brother out of the head. Isn't this guy?Sure enough, it is worse for a literati to have no virtue than to have no talent.

In his mouth, he pretended not to know, and asked: "What article did the fourth brother read, and tell the younger brother?"

Yinzhen has been reading this letter for the past few days, and he really pities Chen Menglei's talent in his heart

"This is an edited article from previous years. At that time, he and Li Guangdi, the governor of Zhili, were from the same hometown, but their encounters were very different later on."

"Why are the circumstances different?" Yinhu asked knowingly, "Since they are on the same list, they should all have skills?"

Yinzhen thought for a while, but said a few words, after all, one cannot make random judgments without knowing the situation.

"Fourth brother, I see that his articles are so well written, and he is said to be full of poetic spirit. This person must have been wronged. If Huang Ama can avenge him, then I will have one more in the Qing Dynasty." A capable minister." Yinhu knows that his fourth brother always cherishes talents, if he thinks about it, now that the crown prince is in charge of the country in the capital, the elder brother will not stop Mingzhu's people from coming forward, and this will be done!

"It's easy to say, isn't it a crime to plead for mercy?" Yinzhen said so on his lips, but he thought in his heart that he must submit this letter to the imperial court, and he couldn't bury the talent no matter what.

Yinhu didn't persuade deeply, this kind of thing is just luck, how can it be repeated every time?

The next day, Yinhu finally coaxed his younger brothers out of the carriage and accompanied him on a horse tour. The elder brother was in charge of the army and had no time to hunt. Many arrows are prepared for their enjoyment.The three brothers walked all the way and opened their bows all the way, but they also harvested a lot of little white rabbits and roe deer.

At noon, Kangxi specially ordered someone to burn the prey and distribute it to everyone, saying that he wanted to taste the fruit of his son, Xiao Jiu and Xiao Shi could finally hold their heads high and proud.

Only Yinhu was not happy in his heart, he was no match for Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi in his last life, and he still can't compare in this life.No matter what, he is also a person in two lives, Yinhu intends to make up for all the regrets, and secretly made up his mind that he must give them a good fight.

After lunch, Kangxi summoned all the guards and elder brothers to prepare for a big hunt in the dense forest by the road.First, the guards surrounded the dense forest, and the vanguards went in with hounds to drive the animals out. Then the elder brothers and the emperor waited outside the dense forest for the alarmed animals, picking their favorite bows.

"Brother Nine, do you like mink fur hats? I'll make you a big one!" Xiao Shi loved this thing the most in his life, and was happy when he saw the matter of bowing a horse.

"You are not stupid, five yellow and six months, who wears that thing? Besides, I don't know how to fight myself? Last year I shot a tiger, and you are still in a dream!" Underestimated, this time he was provoked by his younger brother, whipped his horsewhip and rushed into the forest.I hope to show my brother a good name.

Over there, Yinhu had the same kind of heart as him, and went in after chasing the hound. Xiao Jiu saw his brother, slowed down and waited for him to catch up with the two of them riding side by side.

The larger animals in the forest were running, and the hounds chased and intercepted them very happily. The sika deer, roe deer, and rabbit, they both looked at it whether they wanted to or not, and kept it for others.They have only one goal: the bears in the woods.

Driving the hounds forward, finally, several hounds stopped in front of a cave, sniffing their noses, but did not go in.

"Go in, go in." Impatient Xiao Jiu took out his whip and instructed the hounds to go in and drive the bear out. Finally, a brown one rushed in, only heard a few shrill barks and a biting sound, and then there was no movement. up.

The two looked at each other, there was a bear inside, both of them raised their bows, clamped the restless mounts under them, and prepared to meet the enemy.

There was a rustling sound, and then a black bear taller than a person came out of the hole, with blood and a few brown dog hairs hanging from its mouth.

At this time, the two started shooting arrows together, but three or five arrows all shot into the bear's body, but unfortunately it was a small bow and short arrow, the bear seemed to be enraged, brushed away the broken arrows on his body, and rushed towards the two of them When he came over, Yinhu remembered that the arrows that the little brothers were holding were not made of fine steel, and they were almost useless against black bears, so he hurriedly told his brother to run.

"Xiao Jiu, run fast, head east, climb trees when a horse is startled, and a blind man can't climb trees."

"What about you, starling?" Xiao Jiu held the reins tightly and didn't move. He couldn't leave his brother and escape by himself. "Leave me alone, our arrows can't hurt him. Go back and get Ama's musket to save me. Hurry up!" Go, or I'll die if it's too late."

Only then did Xiao Jiu suddenly realize, and turned his horse's head and rushed outside.

Xiong Xiazi had already rushed towards Yinhu, Yinhu let go of his hand, and rolled directly under the horse's belly, and then heard a crisp fracture sound, his mount was slapped to death by Xiong Xiazi, Yinhu let go and fell to the ground, Rolling towards a slope, Xiong Xiazi slapped the horse to death behind him, but he also knew that the culprit was not found, so he was still searching all the way.

Yinhu looked back and saw that the huge monster was still pressing on, and he didn't dare to pretend to be dead to lie to him, turned around and ran, the palm wind from behind passed by the back of his head, there was a huge locust tree in front of him, Yinhu three He caught up with him in two steps and climbed up, hugging the tallest branch and refused to let go. The blind man below saw him climb up the tree, but he still refused to give up. Knowing that he could not climb up, the blind man hugged the locust tree Started to hit hard,.

The roots of the locust tree are shallow, and some floating roots are exposed after three or two strokes. Seeing that the collision is effective, Xiong Blindman hit it harder and harder. Yinhu hugged the branch and felt cold in his heart. He was here to hunt. Could it be that he died today? here?The majestic Tianhuang nobleman actually became the food of Xiong Xiazi. If he didn't catch the wild goose, he was pecked in the eye, right?Yinhu thinks that at least he has delayed the time so that Xiao Jiu can get away, and he has lived up to his heart.

The locust tree has begun to shake and tilt, and there are bursts of hurried hooves

"Eighth Prince, Eighth Prince" That was the voice of the guard

"Mynah, mynah" that was the voice of my brothers

"Eighth Brother, Eighth Brother" That's the voice of the older brothers

"Yinhu, Yinhu" This is the voice of my own Huang Ama

Only then did Yinhu let out a sigh of relief, and hurriedly responded

"Here I am, watch out for bears"

Xiong Xiazi under the tree seemed to know that reinforcements were coming, and he worked harder,

With an impact, the locust tree finally fell to the ground, and Yinhu also fell to the ground

Xiong Xiazi rushed towards Yinhu

"It's over, I won't hit anything now." Looking at the approaching enemy, Yinhu thought desperately "嗙"

"嗙嗙"

After a few gunshots, the bear fell on Yinhu's body with a bang. Yinhu could ask about its smell and feel its blood dripping onto his clothes.

Immediately, Xiao Jiu saw the bear rushing towards his brother, and shot without thinking about anything.When the prey was killed, he put down the gun in his hand, feeling numb from his shoulder to his mouth.

The guards next to him rushed over, moved the dead bear away, and helped Yinhu up. A burly guard held Yinhu in his arms and went to lead the horse. Only then did Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi think of going to see his brother's wounds. .Yinti looked at his brother covered in blood and couldn't help bursting into anger. He leaned forward and stretched out his hand to check his injury.

Yinhu held his brother's hand and said weakly, "Brother, I'm not hurt."

"Nonsense, where did you get so much blood if you weren't injured, don't be brave, let brother see."

"It's really not hurt, it's all bear's blood!" Yinhu emphasized

"Thank you brother for saving me"

"What nonsense are you talking about? It was Xiaojiu who saved you. Are you ashamed to be saved by your younger brother?" Yinti rode on the horse, put his younger brother in front of him, and prepared to go back.

"Brother, it's all my fault, I shouldn't have left you." Xiao Jiu got off the horse and ran to Yinti, seeing her starling covered in blood in her elder brother's arms, her eyes turned red.

"What did you say? You saved the starling. It's too late for the starling to thank you. Why are you crying? Xiao Jiu is so powerful that he can beat a bear to death. We'll come back tomorrow." Yinhu comforted his younger brother with a smile.

"Hmph, come again? Do you think we didn't worry enough?" Yinti felt sorry for his younger brother's shock, but he didn't say anything good. "Even Huang Ama brought the third child to look for you over there, just for fear that something will happen to you, you little bastard, you will not be allowed to touch bows and arrows from tomorrow on."

The guards took their firearms and let out a few bangs as a signal, and the group walked towards the main road.

Seeing that they were approaching the main road, the emperor over there brought the third elder brother and the seventh elder brother over, with a worried expression on his face, the eldest elder brother hurriedly saluted: "Returning to Huang Ama, the bear was beaten by Xiao Jiu." He died, and the eighth brother was not injured."

Kangxi took a closer look at Yinhu, who didn't seem to be in trouble, he was obviously relieved, nodded, and led everyone out without saying anything.

In the evening, although the emperor reprimanded the elder brothers for their recklessness, there was no real punishment. He even greatly praised Xiao Jiu, who was so popular today, and all the elder brothers were full of congratulations.The emperor had already been rewarded by the bear skin to Xiao Jiu, and the proud little elder brother hugged the big bear skin and rolled several times.

At night, when Yinhu, who was surrounded by his younger brothers, finally couldn't bear the warmth, he decided to blame others.

"Xiao Jiu, do you want the fourth brother's dog?" Yinhu coaxed his younger brother as much as possible to the fourth brother's yard, but he was not there, but this did not prevent the guards from putting the elder brothers in the courtyard tease the dog.But I don't know why the little white dog who has been familiar with them these days kept barking when he saw Xiao Jiu, which made Xiao Jiu very depressed.

Finally, the little white dog was cornered by Xiao Jiu and Xiao Shi. Xiao Jiu smiled and stretched out his hand. When he was about to hug him, the little dog opened his mouth and bit Xiao Jiu's finger fiercely.

Ah Ya yelled loudly, Xiao Jiu hurriedly stepped aside, and found that her finger was bitten bloody, and suddenly became angry, "What the hell, dare to bite me? I am not even afraid of bears, how could I be afraid of you, a poor dog?"

As he said that, he called the guards to catch the dog. He was so sleepy that he hung it above the stable. Xiao Jiu took a pair of scissors and went there. Yinhu was afraid that he would hurt the dog's life and have a grudge against the fourth brother, so he stopped him all the way. Just don't listen.Yinhu had no choice but to follow.

However, Xiao Jiu just took the scissors and cut the little white dog's fur to pieces. The dog whined and whined aggrievedly. Yinhu didn't expect this, so he couldn't help laughing, and let go He has to go.Left and right didn't hurt their lives, so why stop him from venting his anger?

A familiar voice came from behind:

"What did you do to my dog?"

Yinzhen originally wanted to repay Chen Menglei's grievances to the emperor because Huang Ama was happy today. As expected, the emperor was also moved after reading the letter of resignation. After he tried to persuade him again, the emperor sent someone Went to Zhili to hear that Chen Menglei had come to see him, and that he would be able to get revenge in a few days, Yinzhen was very happy.

As soon as he came back, he saw that his yard was in a mess, and there was endless applause from the stable behind.When I came over, I saw my beloved dog was hung upside down on the stable, Xiao Jiu was attacking with scissors, and the puppy was so frightened that it whined.

"Ninth Brother, it's up to the owner to beat the dog. My dog ​​is at my disposal. What do you mean by that?" Yinzhen was very angry.

"It's just a dog, brother, you have to worry about it? I didn't hurt its life?" Xiao Jiu was still immersed in his complacency, and he didn't notice his fourth brother's face at all.

Furious, Yinzhen snatched Xiao Jiu's scissors, picked up his whip and cut off his braids, "It's just braids, and I didn't hurt your life." Yinzhen said coldly

For a moment, everyone was stunned, Xiao Jiuwan didn't expect his fourth brother to treat him like this because of a dog, felt pain and wronged, stomped his feet and ran away.

The little ten next to him was not happy, and he gave fourth brother a hard look and ran away.

Kangxi's living room

Yinzhen knelt down, Kangxi looked at his son angrily

"Lao Ba was trapped today, and it was Xiao Jiu who went to save him. He is so young, but he has such a filial heart. I am very comforted. Now he just cut the dog's hair, and you actually cut your brother's hair." Braid, you must know your body, your hair, your skin, your parents, what use will I have for an unfilial son like you?"

"It was he who cut the dog's fur first, my son thought"

"Even if he kills the puppy, so what? It's just a dog, and you're going to shoot at your younger brother? That dog hurt the prince's hand, so you should be damned. Could it be that in your heart, your younger brother is not as good as a dog?"

"The son was just impulsive"

"Hmph, the word moody is really appropriate for you!"